Icky

//ˈɪki//

Synonyms for "icky" (89 found)

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Closest matches (18)

stinking atrocious bad barfy brackish bum cheesy cloying crappy creepy crummy dirty disgusting fecal feculent fetid

Adjective(1 words)

clarty

Adjective(1 words)

crappy

Strong matches (27)

filthy flyblown foul fulsome gloppy godawful gooey goshawful grim gunky hairy high horrible loathsome maggoty malodorous mawkish mephitic mucky nasty

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nauseant nauseating nauseous

Adjective(2 words)

gooey lousy

Adjective(2 words)

grubby ill

Related words (44)

noisome noxious odious offensive ordurous overripe poisonous puky punk putrid rancid rank rebarbative repellent repulsive revolting rotten scabby scummy scurfy

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sentimental shitty sickening slabby slimy sloppy sloshy sludgy slushy spoiled sposhy stinky sweet vile vomity weevily wormy yecchy yucky

Adjective(4 words)

rotten shitty stinking stinky

Adjective(1 words)

unclean

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

Synonyms

2 entries

gooey stinking

Related terms

1 entries

ick

derived

4 entries

ickily ickiness icky-poo sticky-icky

is a

1 entries

yuck factor

related to

9 entries

disgusting excessively ick sentimental sticky unpleasantly unwell upset yucky

similar

2 entries

adhesive bad

Translations

24 translations across 10 languages.

Bulgarian

2 entries

лепкав adj (unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting)
сладникав adj (excessively sentimental)

Esperanto

2 entries

aĉa adj (unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting)
malbongustega adj (unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting)

Finnish

2 entries

yököttävä adj (unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting)
ällö adj (unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting)

French

4 entries

cucul adj (excessively sentimental)
dégoûtant adj (unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting)
dégueu adj (unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting)
dégueulasse adj (unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting)

German

4 entries

ekelig adj (unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting)
eklig adj (unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting)
fies klebrig adj (unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting)
kitschig adj (excessively sentimental)

Italian

3 entries

disgustoso adj (unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting)
sdolcinato adj (excessively sentimental)
svenevole adj (excessively sentimental)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

ekkel adj (unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting)

Polish

1 entries

be adj (unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting)

Portuguese

1 entries

meloso adj (unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting)

Swedish

2 entries

sliskig adj (excessively sentimental)
äcklig adj (unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

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That's icky.

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It was icky.

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It's rainy and icky here in Boston.

Source: tatoeba (5725784)

I stepped in something icky and it smells terrible.

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